Short Bio

Dylan Shell is an associate professor of computer science and engineering at
Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He received his BSc
degree in computational & applied mathematics and computer science
from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and his M.S. and
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. His
research aims to synthesize and analyze complex, intelligent behavior in
distributed systems that exploit their physical embedding to interact
with the physical world.

Recent Professional Service

I am a co-chair for workshops at RSS in Cambridge, MA, over July 2017.

I am also a co-chair for workshops at IEEE/RSJ IROS in
Vancouver, Canada over September 2017.

If you think you'd like to propose a workshop and would like to discuss
the possibility, or receive some insight into what we're looking for,
please email me! I'll be happy to discuss ideas.

I'm also publications chair for the upcoming IEEE International Symposium
on Multi-robot and Multi-agent Systems (MRS).

I rather enjoy this image. It seems to imply that even from the moment Karel Čapek coined the word robot, tedious maintenance was anticipated. As a rule
I insist on wearing a flat cap whilst tinkering on robots. But, alas, my students appear to think this faddish and have opted to eschew this well-meaning example.